Ravenloft brings some new goodies to Neverwinter: “We wanted to pick out the best parts, the essence of Ravenloft,” Neverwinter designer Randy Mosiondz said. “We definitely have lots of story points that hit the book … and the old module.”

Because of our action-oriented combat, we’re going to build the dungeon out, the castle out, more like an actual dungeon,” Foss said about adapting Curse of Strahd for Neverwinter. “Are we going room-for-room to the module? No. Ravenloft is an adaptation Curse of Strahd storyline from D&D in 2016, though Foss said that it contains callouts to the classic AD&D module by Tracy and Laura Hickman. Its ruler is Count Strahd von Zarovich, a vampire lord (though not everyone there knows this about him). Once you agree to help, “They take you through mists into borders of Barovia.” This is a land of Gothic horror, where dark powers dominate. “The Vistani tell tale of Strahd,” Foss said, looking for heroes. It turns out these people are a group of Vistani (the Roma of Ravenloft).

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